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the carolina watchman vol ix.-third series salisbury n c may 23 1878 no 31 paper â– i .. \,-. .:, time .] e leading physician of clinton 111 in the possession of a wife of extraordinary merit she cares nothing foi tllc frivolities of the world and gives her whole energies to works of benevo \\ bile she is an earnest advocate 1c various reforms she does not agree with most professional female reformers in believing thai reform and ugliness are onc and inseparable she loves the beau tiful as well as tl good and true and joes not countenance any scheme of re forn ,| i:ii would make life course and ug ],,. jusl a present she is especially in 1 | m dress reform and in what is popularly known as decorative art while be w i b h*es io furnish her sex with com fortableand cheap clothing she fully ..,!;â€ž i>s thai il 18 one of the chief duties of woman to be beautiful and hence she ut ltrlv .,!,);,,:. all schemes of dress reform tua t would substitute trousers for the flowing garments which she considers na designed women to wear altogether she may be regarded as tbe ideal type of a female reformer and she is nniversally d as ncii by all li knew ber ,,,â€ž: ilaj her husband said to her my . why don'l you invent a new mater ial for women's clothing which will super cede such a clumsy and costly fabric as cloth fig leaves of course won't do ft l ],;,.< in our climate ; but surely some ,),!,,,. can be found that is better than cloth this suggestion greatly pleased the good woman and she promptly began to investigate the various materials which mighl by any possibility be converted into ch iin r . ii i suit of her investigation was to couvice her thai what liersex really want ed was paper she found that a single thickness of ordiuary ncwspape.1 is much v ,; mi r than cotton or even wool and . - of her female friends told her that they had actually suffered even iu mod erately warm weather from weaving three or four closely folded copies of the tri bune hie also found that paper was ex tremely cheap aud that there were cer tain kiinu of paper which were soft plia ble and reasonably strong she estima ted thai she could make herself an entire suit of clothes exclusive of shoes stock ings and gloves out of paper at a cost of .* 1 17 and she could decorate the outer garments with water-colors so thai they would be far more beautiful than the lin eal patterns of silk there remained the bolitarj objection that paper skirts were readily combustible but she knew that l treating them with certain chemical preparations absolute safety agaiusl lire could be secured with her usual energy she at once ob tained her materials and made and deco rated a full assortment of paper garments the lower or primary strata were com posed of suit white uuglazed paper what might be called in view of their position the uiesozoic shirts were made of thick bro i paper while the tertiary skirts were white ami light the outside dress was of a pure while material but it was covered with designs in water-colors the front breadth contained a represen tation of the washington monument as originally designed surrounded by flow ers and leaves of the must exquisite t ints while the tear breadths were ornamented with landscapes in which the wild scenery of the western backwoods was accurately represented the dress being designed for evening wear was cut low in the neck and rigged with pompadour sleeves aud ornanientnd with j:ussels echelon the shorl sleeves were reinforced with under pli'cvcsof tinted tissue paper beautifully scalloped and a belt made id a dozen yards ut wall-paper bordering eucircled ihe wearer's waist nut a stitch of thread or a single but tun hook or pin was used in this unique garments and they were put togethor exclusively with mucilage the good physician assisted his wile to dress and found fault with this system of fastening since as he pointed out he would be compelled to steam her before he could remove a single garment she however explained that her use of muci lage was merely temporary and that she should ultimately devise a method of adapting button i to paper the new paper costume was to be in troduced to the public al a party to be given by the physician and his wife that party was given last tuesday night and will he memorable in the annals of clin ton tin guests were filled w itli admira tion of the paper dress and when the wearer made a brief speech explaining its merits and proving its superiority in all respects to cotton silk or wool it was conceded that lnr arguments were unan swerable whether the dress would have stood the test of waltzing iii a crowded room is not certain fur as the physician was a deacon in the local baptist society waltzing v.as not allowed in his house i he wearer managed it with care and is w is not once torn throughout the whole evening about hi o'clock a waiter bearing a large soup-tureen full of lemonade and followed by another waiter with glasses and other aids to refreshment entered the room and approached a table placed in a corner the physician's wife hap pened to be seated on an ottoman enÂ«Â»air ed in conversation with a bashful young theological student and the waiters were compelled to pass very near to her why the one who carried the lemonade stum bled will probably never be known that he did stumble and thereby emptied six gallons of lemonade upon the lap and shoulders of the hostess is unfortunately true of course the lady shrieked aud springing to her feet prepared to withdraw from the room in order to repair damages those who were present say that the pa per melted like snow on an overheated griddle before she had taken a dozen j steps the paper garments began to fall in pieces the scene that followed was frightful strong men put their hand kerchief's to their mouths to suppress their cries and shook with terror the bash i ful theological student fainted and had j not the physician rushed from the room \ , and returned with a waterpool cloak the extent to which the erosion of strata by the action of water would have reached cannot be thought of without the most painful emotions if course it was not necessary for the physician to steam his ; unhappy wife that evening but this was but a slight consolation to him and was insufficient to prevent him from denounc \ , ing paper garments in language which was probably scientific but which will | hardly bear reproduction â– â– i w the troubles f a poet while colonel hangs editor of the ar â– gits was sitting in his oiliee one day a ; ! man whose brow was clothed in thunder j ; entered fiercely seizing a chair he â– slammed his hat on the table hurled his ' ' . umbrella on the floor and sat down are you the editor ?" he asked yes can you read writing "( if course read that then he said thrusting at the colonel an envelope with an iuscrip , tion on it 1 â€” " said the colonel trying to spell it that's not a 15 it's an s said the man i s oh yes i see ! well the words look | a little like salt for dinner or souls of sinners 1 " said the colonel no sir replied the man nothing of ; the kind that's my name samuel ii brumier i knew you couldn't read i called to see you about that poem of mine you printed the other day on the stir i cease of sorrow " i don't remember it said the colonel j of course you don't because it went into the paper under the title of smear ease to-morrow a stupid blunder of the compositor's i i suppose yes sir and that's what i want to see j you about the way in which that poem was mutilated was simply scandalous i hav'nt slept a night since it exposed me to derision people think i am an ass let me show you go ahead said the colonel the first line when i wrote it read iu â– this way : lying by a weeping willow underneath a gen tle slope that is beautiful poetic affecting now how diil your vile sheet present it to the public ? there it is look at that ! made it read this way lying to a weeping widow to induce her to elope weeping widow mind you ! a widow ! 0 thunder and lightning this is too much ! it's enough to drive a man crazy !'' i'm sorry said the colonel but â€” " iint look a-here at the fourth verse said the poet that's worse yet what 1 said was : cast thy pearls before the swine and lose them in t lie dirt i wrote that out clearly and distinctly in a plain round hand now what does j your compositor do does he catch the sense of that beautiful sentiment ? does it sink into his soul ? no sir ! he sets it up in this fashion listen : art my pills before the sunrise and love them if they hurt now isn't that a cold-blooded outrage on a man's feelings 1 i'll leave it to you if it isn't hard f it's hard that's a fact said the colo nel and then take the fifth verso in the original manuscript it said plain as day light : take away the jingling money it is only glit tering dross a man with only one eye and a cata ract over hat could have read the words correctly but your pirate up stairs there do you know what he did 7 lie made it read - take away thy jeering monkeys on a sorely glandered boss by george i felt like braining him with a lire-shovel ! i was never so cut up in my life it was natural too said the colonel there for instance was the sixth verse 1 wrote t am weary of the tossing of the ocean as it heaves it's a lovely line too but imagine my borror and the anguish of my family when i opened your paper and saw the line transformed into i am wearing out my trowsers till they're open at the knees that's a little too much ! that seems tome like carrying the thing an inch or two too far 1 think 1 have a constitu tional right to murder that compositor don't you ?" i think you have let me read you oue more verse i wrote : i swell the flying echoes as they roam among the hills and i feel my soul awaken to the ecstacy that thrills now what do yon s'pose your misera blc out-cast turued that into 1 why into this : i smell the frving shoes as they coast along the bulls " and i peel my soul mistaken to the ercrrary that whirls gibberish sir ! awful gibberish i must slay that man where is he t lie is out just now said the colonel come in to-morrow t will said the poet and i will come armed then he put on his hat shouldered his umbrella and drifted off down stairs max adeler â€” â€” ladies and spring fever how xot to have it more reliable harbingers of spring-time than the prophetic swallow or ardent sunbeams that move the housetops drift from sheltered corners to drip along the eaves at noontide are those inner niur muiings and agitations not alas ! of as piring soul the hampered body which has been coddled petted stuffed with carbon-bearing fats and colori lied in every possible way begins to protest the machinery is clogged headache dyspepsia and the thousand nameless sensations of discomfort which we charge to variable weather afflict and hamper poor humani ty how many people say i always have a billions attack in the spring expect it as a regular thing you know !" as though that were sufficient raison d'etre a little resolution a few dietary precautions would neutralize this tendency to which men yield with the pasivity of optimists primarily we sin by our indulgence at table the habit of hearty meals which were demanded by rigors just past is un consciously indulged beyond the necessity of them a dearth of vegetables forces the appetite to satisfy itself with excess of meats and the housewife is fain with spices and richness to beguile the palate till tender greens come to supplement her meagre larder this then is the hour of danger when the body swathed mill of necessity in winter llauncls and heavy garments eliminating impurities and over stimula ted vitality through the pores is forced to absorb and re-absorb the perspiration mild enervating days exert their prostra ting influence and many seeds of disease germinate all too rapidly under these favoring conditions not for lack of warning must we die ! hut in our own households we have all the curatives needful simplest and most efficacious first let us assist nature in her own processes : on retiring remove all the clothing worn during the day imperatively that next the skin which is surcharged with the impurities given off in insensible perspiration this garment should be thoroughly ventilated before its resumption if you arc sensitive to temperature sub stitute a loose vestment of woolen tex ture most people however will not sull'er in wearing simply the usual night robe especially as bed-coverings are still heavy for the higher temperature on rising sponge the body lightly and quickly with cold water briskly toweling after it is not necessary that this be a long or laborious operation the more rap idly the better with sufficient friction to bring aglow to the skin if you cannot secure time to go over the whole bodily surface at least make it a point to daily sponge the trunk and arms rousing ami stimulating the whole system clearing and opening the pores it imparts an in describable freshness and exhiliration amply repaying the effort ltehabiliated you are now ready for your morning bit ters i c the clear juice of a fresh lemon in a wine glass of water without sugar this is a bomb straight at the enemy for a more potent solvent of bile is not in the materia medica searching out rheu matic tendency attacking those insidious foes which are storing up anguish against oar later days calculi â€” it prevades the system like a lino moral sense rectifying incipient error it is needful perhaps to begin with two lemons daily the second at night just before retiring a primitive but most efficacious pre scription which corrected the physical re action after a pork-eating winter for our ancestors was a wine-glass full of very hard cider made effervescent by a crumb of sal soda more potent and pal atable the concentric force of the pure lemon acid we venture to claim for this self-treat ment alone faithfully applied more relief for the body and stimulants to the mind than from a battery of pills or quarts of herb decoction eat lightly of relishing nourishing food not the least significant of jefferson's sterling ten rules is the sixth : we seldom repent of having eaten too little above all with the inertia of early spring upon us take short brisk walks in the bright sunshine whenever possible resolution in the initiation pertinacity in the suc ceeding stages of this antibiliary crusade will be shortly rewarded by eujoyment which makes these things luxury no such cosmetic dear ladies in lily white or rough pad as the bloom imparted bv this daily bath and after all are we not more resolute to correct the bilious com plexion than a deranged digestion â€” m g a in christian union wadsworth's model farm what was seen there in an hours visit xo jest is intended iu designating this as a model farm it is such indeed and in truth an observer scribe driv en out there the other afternoon enjoyed the occasion more than he ever did a pic nic when he was a young and giddy thing on this place mr wadsworth has demon strated that a man may be a good livery man and a good farmer at ne and the same time he has two hundred and sixty acres under cultivation ami how high the state of cultivation a glance is sufficient to show one hundred acres are in grass and clover â€” high clover and grass so thick upon the ground that it is j softer to the footstep than any brussels ; carpet twenty acres of the land is in cotton which is now well up mr wads i worth's stand of cotton was never better at this season of the year there are live acres in grapes â€” 3,000 vines well trained â€” and the young orchard we guess is the best in mecklenburg em | bracing all the fruits grown in this sec | tion tho garden is up to the best house wife's standard and th land not ac j counted for is in clover wheat oats and j rye these are glorious wheat fields a lot of fultz wheat sowed last october stands six feet high as thick as hops and promises thirty bushels to the acre it nods gracefully enough in the breezes and the heaviness of the heads is suggestive l of fertile soil and a land of identv the oats is in full head and much of the corn | well out of the ground these crops tes ; tify to the tho#>ugh preparation of the â– soil and the fresh green cotton aud corn | just peering from the earth as the velvety grasses and the fields of beautiful wav ing main testify no less eloquently how well the earth has answered to the de , niands made upon her but these are not the things which con stitute this a model farm in a pasture i of orchard grass just on the banks of the , i i creek you see eight or ten thorough-bred calves aud yearlings keeping company with a half dozen colts of different ages all leisurely grazing and evidently enjoy ing life tho colts are the shapely child ren of the shapely abdttl-koree and promise to do honor to their illustrious ancestry they never see a grain of corn or a siieaf of oats ; their sole food is what j they pick upon their pasture and curry - i comb has never been seen on their side of the fence : yet colts and calves are as fat as moles and their glossy sides and backs j fairly glisten iti the sun oh they are beauties and to see them would repay a visit even though the visitor had to walk ' from town then there are sheep south down and merino lambs rams and ewes fattening upon this pasture cultivating fleeces or all ready any day to be con verted into mutton about the farm house flutter an hun dred pigeons on terms of social equality ! with scores of turkeys and chickens i about the barn congregate thirty cows ' some of them blended and numerous hogs i of the most popular breeds upon the ; high cool eminence from which is had a beautiful view of charlotte over a green : and pleasant-looking valley stands a j pump which yiehhvwater perceptibly im pregnated with iron aud sulphur this is no new discovery and while neither of the minerals is very strong their pres : ence in the water is unmistakable and i well-established and this adds another attractive place this article has been extended beyond what was originally intended and for this the writer pleads a pardonable degree of | enthusiasm much has been left unsaid , and what has been omitted must be eni i braced under the generalreniark that the ! whole place exhibits intelligence in its j management and pains-taking care in its ' conduct there is no spot around char i lotte where an afternoon can be spent j more delightfully and certainly there is i no place calculated to give a stranger a . better opinion of our community and sec ; tion this model farm is a sufficient evi dence of the excellent capacities of our j friend wadsworth as a farmer for he j gives it his immediate personal supervis ion and so well pleased with it was the i observer scribe that he intends if he lives to go there again â€” car oh new berne nut sheli ',: miss mary a smith a domestic in the family of the keeper of ilatteras inlet light house met her death on the 27th nit she was engaged in her daily routine of house â– cleaning and while putting out her beds to air over the railing she dropped a pil low and in her attempt to regain it fell through the trap door iu the promenade deck breaking her neck one mr jeffcoat in the lower part of this county was accidently shot iu the ankle a few weeks ago and dr helde ! brand amputated the foot mr jeffcoat's gun fell from his shoulder and striking the round discharged ihe whole load in his ankle â€” summit courier peter cooper he passes through charlotte en route to limestone springs yesterday the 1.15 p ni train from the north came in with a beautiful palace car attached one of the most complete and elegant owned by the pullman company in which was hon peter cooper of xew york who was en route to limestone springs to inspect the property he has purchased there and which he proposes to eonvert into a school to be operated somewhat on the plan of the famous coop er institute in xew york city he was accompanied by mrs abram s hewitt mrs edward cooper and daughter miss edith cooper miss adelia cooper aud professor and mrs henry c raymond they were met at the air line j action by col g j foreacre general manager of the air line railroad with a special engine and after a stop of about twenty minutes were taken on to gaffney's at which point they leave the road lime stone springs being only about a mile and a quarter from that place the palace car in which the party came from xew york is supplied with every convenience for cooking sleeping sec in fact is an elegant dwelling on wheels and the party will doubtless occupy this dm ing their stay at gaffney's probably going out to limestone springs every day and returning at night mr cooper is quite a stout and healthy man for his age he was 87 years old on the 12th of last february he didn't talk much of his plans in reference to the school at limestone springs but was dis posed to discuss farming he said he was going to have an experiment in farming tried on his new place about thirty years ago continued he a seedy looking man came into my office aud offered to sell me a great secret 30 lie was so persistent and his condition was so piti ful that i finally com hided to buy it i paid the money and he told me the se cret mr cooper then proceeded to relate that it was a process of treating seed corn which would double ils productive pow er the corn should be covered with glue and rolled successively in lime guano c and planted with the accumulation thus gathered around it i gave the recipe continued he to a man in xew york state and he reported that the yield of the corn so treated was double that of corn planted in the usual way 1 have a barrel of glue with me and intend to try the experiment â€” charlotte observer farming out prisoners judge mckoy on this circuit has liber ally availed himself of the powers con ferred by the law of 1574-"5 amendatory to section 17 of chapter 8 of battle's revisal in regard to hiring out persons convicted of criminal offences by any of the courts of the state the law as ori ginally in force applied only to con victs but by an amendment offered by mr parish senator from orange at the session of 1-74 and passed into a law the powers of the court were so enlarged as to embrace not only all persons con victed of any criminal offence but all de fendants who may be made liable for the costs of a prosecution ; and the board of county commissioners are charged with the duty of making contracts for the safe keeping of such criminals and securing to the counly the costs of such criminals or defendants the operation of the present law is three fold : it provides appropriate pun ishment for parties guilty of the minor grades of crime it secures the county against the costs of such suits and the maintenance of idle crime in jail ; and ii is made a source of revenue to county by which the aggregate of taxation is dimin ish ed in cany ing out the purposes of the law the commissioners should see t it that all these purposes are conserved : and that is effected by rigid scrutiny into the hands with whom they enter iuto contracts the narantces for the security of the priso ners and the payment of the amount for which they are hired must be of the most ample kind there must be no child's play about it crime will lose all terrors if criminals are to be put out to a mere nominal servitude : and if the hirer be an irresponsible party the county loses not only its costs but its expected revenue also we merely make the suggestion be cause the practice is a new on : but as it is likely hereafter to be largely followed and if faithfully conducted calculated to relieve the county of one of its h aviest burdens by the decrease of pi ison charges we wi>li to see the system judiciously be gau.â€”hillsboro recorder richard adams was shot in the leg on tuesday or wednesday of last week by sam saybw or w t brooker ampu tated the leg on thursday adams al though a preacher was iti the act of steal ing corn from the crib of savior who was watching and had a shot gun trained on the spot and when he heard tiie thief pulled triggeraud down tumbled adams both parties are colored and reside in sandy run township â€” summit courier so many claimed homer as a resident and a citizen that the hawkeye inclines to the opinion that he was a methodist preacher state convention of the y ung mlns christian association office ok the state ex cost ) of yockg mkn's lii'i a^so \ charlotte n c may !>. 1378 at the first annual convention of the iouug men's christian association oi the state of xo,th carolina held in the city f charlotte iu april of last year the undersigned were appointed members of an executive committee to overlook asso ciation work throughout the state to fos ter and encourage existing associations and to effect organizations in new locali ties whenever practicable our efforts have met with some degree of success and while we do not claim all the growth and development of the work as the direct re sult of our labors we are nevertheless greatly cheered by the fact tiiat the num ber of associations iu the state has more than doubled during the past year we deem it therefore our duty and privilege to call the second annual convention of the v m c a of the state of north car olina and have appointed friday june 14th as the time and greensboro as the place for holding said convention the business session will continue during fri day and saturday and on sunday fol lowing devotional exercises will be held under the auspices of the convention onr brethren of the greensboro association have given us a cordial invitation to as semble there and assure us that we will receive a hearty welcome we are anx ious to have every association in the state represented by one or more members there are also many localities in which no formal organizations have been effect ed where the young men if properly stimulated and instructed would unite in association work we would gladly meet in convention representative nun from all such communities feeling assured that many of them would be enabled on their retain heme to organize an association the committee request that the names of all delegates who expect to attend the convention be promptly forwarded to t m pitt man secretary charlotte x ('.. i order that arrangements may be made for their entertainment application has been made to tiie various railroad officials in the state for a reduction of fare to dele gates attending the convention and we presume the usual courtesies will lie ex tended a programme of the order of exercises to b observed during the con vention will be issued iu the form of a circular and parties desiring information as to the railroad rates or on any other subject will please address the secretary at charlotte x c i 11 foust chairman t m pittmax secretary platft rm of the pennsylvania nationals philadelphia may 9 â€” the national convention has nominated a full state ticket the platform generally enunci ates the principles adopted in the nation al convention in toledo in february last they declare that the government should furnish aid to families desirous of settling upon public lands they favor rigid economy in the administration of public affairs demand the eight hour system of labor the abolition of the prison contract system of labor a graduated system of in come tax eqnal civil and political rights for women and paper money or green backs based not alone on the two metals silver and gold â€” but upon the entire wealth and the integrity of the nation should be assured in sufficient quantities to revive our prostrate industries later â€” the national convention was somewhat turbulent to-day a resolution tha the convention con demn any lawlessness or violence was adopted also tiie platform read this morning with a few amendments which briefly summarized that the pan advocates a high protective tariff and a moderate re form in the hours of labor to be regula ted by wise 1 gislative opposition to dis criminating monopolies in tiie carrying of trade and the substitution of the nation's money for that of bank notes it demands the unconstitutional rein 1 of the resump tion act the recognition by congress ot efforts at internal improvements and the encouragement of ship building aud ocean ic transportation it disavows the coun tenance of lawlessness and vioh nee and advocates the maintenance of the princi ples of the party by the judicious use of the ballot i it changes thaianic of the party from that of the national labor party to national greenback laboi party cut worms are destroy ing toe growing crops in the sandy rum section at a fearful rate one gentleman has a cotton field of 5 acres and it i asserted that all that is left of a good stand of cotton could be lndd in a single hand one pint of worms was gathered from three fee of a cotton row and it is thought that an average *! a peck of worm could be gathered from seventv yards of every row â€” summit courier one fhous nd seven hundred aud seven ty-five dollars is what it recently cost ap panoose county to find out that a man was insane ne huudred aud thirteen witnesses were examined i i to prevent the collection of old debts under the recent homestead decis ion of the v s supreme court some newspaper correspondents propose the following : let eb vance as soon after the elec tion in angust as possible call together the legislature in special session : it r that legislature be elected with especial ref erence to the measure which 1 now pro pose for the relief of the homesteads ami when elected let it instanter impose a tax ot ninety-nine per cent upon all execu tions issued or subsequently to lie issued upon judgments obtained previously to the ratification of the constitution of 1868 and upon all compromises thereunder provided either is pressed to cwllection or is not cancelled in ten days if this in feasible there can be no doubt that the legislature may rescind all amercements upon sheriffs lor declining to act upon such executions and such abolition of amercements would go far to supply the needed remedy would all that be constitutional and might it not be productive of further trouble in the future postponements of that sort are dangerous while relieving the poor debtor let the poor creditor also be remembered charlotte democrat the appointment of packard the bogus governor of lonisiana in tiie bayonet days as consul to liverpool is a genuine surprise to the country this is a tri umph of unadulterated rascality pack ard is correctly described by the phila delphia times as the champion carpet bagg r and head centre of the returning board system of elections every man we believe who was concerned directh or remotely in the lonisiana and florida steal has been rewarded by the great civil service reformer of the white house the times as might be supposed does not al low hayes thus to insult decency with out administering a few stripes we give a paragraph : in the xew orleans custom house his light would have been hidden andei a bushel in the central american states he would have wasted his sweetness on the desert air but at liverpool mr packard is a city set upon a hill that al may behold its beauties there is nothing mean about this country what is ours we give to the world it would be well to publish the proposed consul's biogra phy in tiie london and liverpool journals in older that the british public may real ize to the fullest extent the compliment paid in this appointment to the proud natiou whose chief boast is i;s integrity in commerce and diplomacy there is a great stir in the papers just now over the american commune crave fiats are felt that evil disposed persons will bring great trouble upon our country and that the dangerous wild agragrian principles of the paris commune may become a terrible factor in oar free america we cannot to-day enb r upon this topic at large for want of space we will say however that we do not anticipate as much mischief as others do we believe that it is impossible now for the spirit of plnuder and destruction to go far before coming to grief Â» ur people are not yet corrupt enough for universal chaos and its attending curses there may bo sei ions trouble for a while in densely pop ulated centres but the good sense and good principles of the people will back up the law ami the carnival of thievery and crime will be quashed aud that speed ily wil star a gentlemau sits on a tall stool at a desk in collector tut ton's office a com mittee approaches him witii a subscrip tion paper the president has contrib uted so has the secretary of the treas ury so has senator cameron so has this and the other chief of bureau inspector and so on down i h â€¢ clerk may or may not put hi name down with a good round sum opposite he is a free agent and if he choose to set himself up as a contrast t t e di sons v hose names appear on the roll of honor that i his lookout bui no compulsion aol for worlds this i p > ! < l "' ' ivil service reform it any president ever went farther in the advÂ«Â»cacy of the sys tem of rnnuiug political parties by levy ing on officeholders it is not a matter of record the truth is hat he h s basely surrendered his position so often declar ed aud forfeited the las vestige of the confidence that he enjoyed in the lirst bright days uf hi - administration phifa dclphia times lud for sweet love's sake a case of strong devotion was develop ed in denverashort time ago a young man of eight summers bad jusi had a front tooth pulled he did uol wince win ! _. ii one eud ch the ':::, ... i h 1 was edven the vio lent jerk that docidi 1 the matter but brightened upas if greatly relieved and confronted his mother wh > was perform ing the duties o fist with : now mamma please pull thi other as the other was not 1 lady refns d and th â€¢ b iy went i miu : ly discons date so ird 1 ; - ed and the ing a p cu liar vacancy alnuis his mouth begau aq inspection a few well din etc 1 -; :â€¢ brough to lighl th i bad per ' formed the job himself how di v sheas i just pa it a it canie wli it on i lrth possess : in to no if :"' â€¢â€¢". .... n lie replied meek i - er'ii out and i wanted both ol mine out maud and the young man are sweet hearts dcurci .

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the carolina watchman vol ix.-third series salisbury n c may 23 1878 no 31 paper â– i .. \,-. .:, time .] e leading physician of clinton 111 in the possession of a wife of extraordinary merit she cares nothing foi tllc frivolities of the world and gives her whole energies to works of benevo \\ bile she is an earnest advocate 1c various reforms she does not agree with most professional female reformers in believing thai reform and ugliness are onc and inseparable she loves the beau tiful as well as tl good and true and joes not countenance any scheme of re forn ,| i:ii would make life course and ug ],,. jusl a present she is especially in 1 | m dress reform and in what is popularly known as decorative art while be w i b h*es io furnish her sex with com fortableand cheap clothing she fully ..,!;â€ž i>s thai il 18 one of the chief duties of woman to be beautiful and hence she ut ltrlv .,!,);,,:. all schemes of dress reform tua t would substitute trousers for the flowing garments which she considers na designed women to wear altogether she may be regarded as tbe ideal type of a female reformer and she is nniversally d as ncii by all li knew ber ,,,â€ž: ilaj her husband said to her my . why don'l you invent a new mater ial for women's clothing which will super cede such a clumsy and costly fabric as cloth fig leaves of course won't do ft l ],;,.< in our climate ; but surely some ,),!,,,. can be found that is better than cloth this suggestion greatly pleased the good woman and she promptly began to investigate the various materials which mighl by any possibility be converted into ch iin r . ii i suit of her investigation was to couvice her thai what liersex really want ed was paper she found that a single thickness of ordiuary ncwspape.1 is much v ,; mi r than cotton or even wool and . - of her female friends told her that they had actually suffered even iu mod erately warm weather from weaving three or four closely folded copies of the tri bune hie also found that paper was ex tremely cheap aud that there were cer tain kiinu of paper which were soft plia ble and reasonably strong she estima ted thai she could make herself an entire suit of clothes exclusive of shoes stock ings and gloves out of paper at a cost of .* 1 17 and she could decorate the outer garments with water-colors so thai they would be far more beautiful than the lin eal patterns of silk there remained the bolitarj objection that paper skirts were readily combustible but she knew that l treating them with certain chemical preparations absolute safety agaiusl lire could be secured with her usual energy she at once ob tained her materials and made and deco rated a full assortment of paper garments the lower or primary strata were com posed of suit white uuglazed paper what might be called in view of their position the uiesozoic shirts were made of thick bro i paper while the tertiary skirts were white ami light the outside dress was of a pure while material but it was covered with designs in water-colors the front breadth contained a represen tation of the washington monument as originally designed surrounded by flow ers and leaves of the must exquisite t ints while the tear breadths were ornamented with landscapes in which the wild scenery of the western backwoods was accurately represented the dress being designed for evening wear was cut low in the neck and rigged with pompadour sleeves aud ornanientnd with j:ussels echelon the shorl sleeves were reinforced with under pli'cvcsof tinted tissue paper beautifully scalloped and a belt made id a dozen yards ut wall-paper bordering eucircled ihe wearer's waist nut a stitch of thread or a single but tun hook or pin was used in this unique garments and they were put togethor exclusively with mucilage the good physician assisted his wile to dress and found fault with this system of fastening since as he pointed out he would be compelled to steam her before he could remove a single garment she however explained that her use of muci lage was merely temporary and that she should ultimately devise a method of adapting button i to paper the new paper costume was to be in troduced to the public al a party to be given by the physician and his wife that party was given last tuesday night and will he memorable in the annals of clin ton tin guests were filled w itli admira tion of the paper dress and when the wearer made a brief speech explaining its merits and proving its superiority in all respects to cotton silk or wool it was conceded that lnr arguments were unan swerable whether the dress would have stood the test of waltzing iii a crowded room is not certain fur as the physician was a deacon in the local baptist society waltzing v.as not allowed in his house i he wearer managed it with care and is w is not once torn throughout the whole evening about hi o'clock a waiter bearing a large soup-tureen full of lemonade and followed by another waiter with glasses and other aids to refreshment entered the room and approached a table placed in a corner the physician's wife hap pened to be seated on an ottoman enÂ«Â»air ed in conversation with a bashful young theological student and the waiters were compelled to pass very near to her why the one who carried the lemonade stum bled will probably never be known that he did stumble and thereby emptied six gallons of lemonade upon the lap and shoulders of the hostess is unfortunately true of course the lady shrieked aud springing to her feet prepared to withdraw from the room in order to repair damages those who were present say that the pa per melted like snow on an overheated griddle before she had taken a dozen j steps the paper garments began to fall in pieces the scene that followed was frightful strong men put their hand kerchief's to their mouths to suppress their cries and shook with terror the bash i ful theological student fainted and had j not the physician rushed from the room \ , and returned with a waterpool cloak the extent to which the erosion of strata by the action of water would have reached cannot be thought of without the most painful emotions if course it was not necessary for the physician to steam his ; unhappy wife that evening but this was but a slight consolation to him and was insufficient to prevent him from denounc \ , ing paper garments in language which was probably scientific but which will | hardly bear reproduction â– â– i w the troubles f a poet while colonel hangs editor of the ar â– gits was sitting in his oiliee one day a ; ! man whose brow was clothed in thunder j ; entered fiercely seizing a chair he â– slammed his hat on the table hurled his ' ' . umbrella on the floor and sat down are you the editor ?" he asked yes can you read writing "( if course read that then he said thrusting at the colonel an envelope with an iuscrip , tion on it 1 â€” " said the colonel trying to spell it that's not a 15 it's an s said the man i s oh yes i see ! well the words look | a little like salt for dinner or souls of sinners 1 " said the colonel no sir replied the man nothing of ; the kind that's my name samuel ii brumier i knew you couldn't read i called to see you about that poem of mine you printed the other day on the stir i cease of sorrow " i don't remember it said the colonel j of course you don't because it went into the paper under the title of smear ease to-morrow a stupid blunder of the compositor's i i suppose yes sir and that's what i want to see j you about the way in which that poem was mutilated was simply scandalous i hav'nt slept a night since it exposed me to derision people think i am an ass let me show you go ahead said the colonel the first line when i wrote it read iu â– this way : lying by a weeping willow underneath a gen tle slope that is beautiful poetic affecting now how diil your vile sheet present it to the public ? there it is look at that ! made it read this way lying to a weeping widow to induce her to elope weeping widow mind you ! a widow ! 0 thunder and lightning this is too much ! it's enough to drive a man crazy !'' i'm sorry said the colonel but â€” " iint look a-here at the fourth verse said the poet that's worse yet what 1 said was : cast thy pearls before the swine and lose them in t lie dirt i wrote that out clearly and distinctly in a plain round hand now what does j your compositor do does he catch the sense of that beautiful sentiment ? does it sink into his soul ? no sir ! he sets it up in this fashion listen : art my pills before the sunrise and love them if they hurt now isn't that a cold-blooded outrage on a man's feelings 1 i'll leave it to you if it isn't hard f it's hard that's a fact said the colo nel and then take the fifth verso in the original manuscript it said plain as day light : take away the jingling money it is only glit tering dross a man with only one eye and a cata ract over hat could have read the words correctly but your pirate up stairs there do you know what he did 7 lie made it read - take away thy jeering monkeys on a sorely glandered boss by george i felt like braining him with a lire-shovel ! i was never so cut up in my life it was natural too said the colonel there for instance was the sixth verse 1 wrote t am weary of the tossing of the ocean as it heaves it's a lovely line too but imagine my borror and the anguish of my family when i opened your paper and saw the line transformed into i am wearing out my trowsers till they're open at the knees that's a little too much ! that seems tome like carrying the thing an inch or two too far 1 think 1 have a constitu tional right to murder that compositor don't you ?" i think you have let me read you oue more verse i wrote : i swell the flying echoes as they roam among the hills and i feel my soul awaken to the ecstacy that thrills now what do yon s'pose your misera blc out-cast turued that into 1 why into this : i smell the frving shoes as they coast along the bulls " and i peel my soul mistaken to the ercrrary that whirls gibberish sir ! awful gibberish i must slay that man where is he t lie is out just now said the colonel come in to-morrow t will said the poet and i will come armed then he put on his hat shouldered his umbrella and drifted off down stairs max adeler â€” â€” ladies and spring fever how xot to have it more reliable harbingers of spring-time than the prophetic swallow or ardent sunbeams that move the housetops drift from sheltered corners to drip along the eaves at noontide are those inner niur muiings and agitations not alas ! of as piring soul the hampered body which has been coddled petted stuffed with carbon-bearing fats and colori lied in every possible way begins to protest the machinery is clogged headache dyspepsia and the thousand nameless sensations of discomfort which we charge to variable weather afflict and hamper poor humani ty how many people say i always have a billions attack in the spring expect it as a regular thing you know !" as though that were sufficient raison d'etre a little resolution a few dietary precautions would neutralize this tendency to which men yield with the pasivity of optimists primarily we sin by our indulgence at table the habit of hearty meals which were demanded by rigors just past is un consciously indulged beyond the necessity of them a dearth of vegetables forces the appetite to satisfy itself with excess of meats and the housewife is fain with spices and richness to beguile the palate till tender greens come to supplement her meagre larder this then is the hour of danger when the body swathed mill of necessity in winter llauncls and heavy garments eliminating impurities and over stimula ted vitality through the pores is forced to absorb and re-absorb the perspiration mild enervating days exert their prostra ting influence and many seeds of disease germinate all too rapidly under these favoring conditions not for lack of warning must we die ! hut in our own households we have all the curatives needful simplest and most efficacious first let us assist nature in her own processes : on retiring remove all the clothing worn during the day imperatively that next the skin which is surcharged with the impurities given off in insensible perspiration this garment should be thoroughly ventilated before its resumption if you arc sensitive to temperature sub stitute a loose vestment of woolen tex ture most people however will not sull'er in wearing simply the usual night robe especially as bed-coverings are still heavy for the higher temperature on rising sponge the body lightly and quickly with cold water briskly toweling after it is not necessary that this be a long or laborious operation the more rap idly the better with sufficient friction to bring aglow to the skin if you cannot secure time to go over the whole bodily surface at least make it a point to daily sponge the trunk and arms rousing ami stimulating the whole system clearing and opening the pores it imparts an in describable freshness and exhiliration amply repaying the effort ltehabiliated you are now ready for your morning bit ters i c the clear juice of a fresh lemon in a wine glass of water without sugar this is a bomb straight at the enemy for a more potent solvent of bile is not in the materia medica searching out rheu matic tendency attacking those insidious foes which are storing up anguish against oar later days calculi â€” it prevades the system like a lino moral sense rectifying incipient error it is needful perhaps to begin with two lemons daily the second at night just before retiring a primitive but most efficacious pre scription which corrected the physical re action after a pork-eating winter for our ancestors was a wine-glass full of very hard cider made effervescent by a crumb of sal soda more potent and pal atable the concentric force of the pure lemon acid we venture to claim for this self-treat ment alone faithfully applied more relief for the body and stimulants to the mind than from a battery of pills or quarts of herb decoction eat lightly of relishing nourishing food not the least significant of jefferson's sterling ten rules is the sixth : we seldom repent of having eaten too little above all with the inertia of early spring upon us take short brisk walks in the bright sunshine whenever possible resolution in the initiation pertinacity in the suc ceeding stages of this antibiliary crusade will be shortly rewarded by eujoyment which makes these things luxury no such cosmetic dear ladies in lily white or rough pad as the bloom imparted bv this daily bath and after all are we not more resolute to correct the bilious com plexion than a deranged digestion â€” m g a in christian union wadsworth's model farm what was seen there in an hours visit xo jest is intended iu designating this as a model farm it is such indeed and in truth an observer scribe driv en out there the other afternoon enjoyed the occasion more than he ever did a pic nic when he was a young and giddy thing on this place mr wadsworth has demon strated that a man may be a good livery man and a good farmer at ne and the same time he has two hundred and sixty acres under cultivation ami how high the state of cultivation a glance is sufficient to show one hundred acres are in grass and clover â€” high clover and grass so thick upon the ground that it is j softer to the footstep than any brussels ; carpet twenty acres of the land is in cotton which is now well up mr wads i worth's stand of cotton was never better at this season of the year there are live acres in grapes â€” 3,000 vines well trained â€” and the young orchard we guess is the best in mecklenburg em | bracing all the fruits grown in this sec | tion tho garden is up to the best house wife's standard and th land not ac j counted for is in clover wheat oats and j rye these are glorious wheat fields a lot of fultz wheat sowed last october stands six feet high as thick as hops and promises thirty bushels to the acre it nods gracefully enough in the breezes and the heaviness of the heads is suggestive l of fertile soil and a land of identv the oats is in full head and much of the corn | well out of the ground these crops tes ; tify to the tho#>ugh preparation of the â– soil and the fresh green cotton aud corn | just peering from the earth as the velvety grasses and the fields of beautiful wav ing main testify no less eloquently how well the earth has answered to the de , niands made upon her but these are not the things which con stitute this a model farm in a pasture i of orchard grass just on the banks of the , i i creek you see eight or ten thorough-bred calves aud yearlings keeping company with a half dozen colts of different ages all leisurely grazing and evidently enjoy ing life tho colts are the shapely child ren of the shapely abdttl-koree and promise to do honor to their illustrious ancestry they never see a grain of corn or a siieaf of oats ; their sole food is what j they pick upon their pasture and curry - i comb has never been seen on their side of the fence : yet colts and calves are as fat as moles and their glossy sides and backs j fairly glisten iti the sun oh they are beauties and to see them would repay a visit even though the visitor had to walk ' from town then there are sheep south down and merino lambs rams and ewes fattening upon this pasture cultivating fleeces or all ready any day to be con verted into mutton about the farm house flutter an hun dred pigeons on terms of social equality ! with scores of turkeys and chickens i about the barn congregate thirty cows ' some of them blended and numerous hogs i of the most popular breeds upon the ; high cool eminence from which is had a beautiful view of charlotte over a green : and pleasant-looking valley stands a j pump which yiehhvwater perceptibly im pregnated with iron aud sulphur this is no new discovery and while neither of the minerals is very strong their pres : ence in the water is unmistakable and i well-established and this adds another attractive place this article has been extended beyond what was originally intended and for this the writer pleads a pardonable degree of | enthusiasm much has been left unsaid , and what has been omitted must be eni i braced under the generalreniark that the ! whole place exhibits intelligence in its j management and pains-taking care in its ' conduct there is no spot around char i lotte where an afternoon can be spent j more delightfully and certainly there is i no place calculated to give a stranger a . better opinion of our community and sec ; tion this model farm is a sufficient evi dence of the excellent capacities of our j friend wadsworth as a farmer for he j gives it his immediate personal supervis ion and so well pleased with it was the i observer scribe that he intends if he lives to go there again â€” car oh new berne nut sheli ',: miss mary a smith a domestic in the family of the keeper of ilatteras inlet light house met her death on the 27th nit she was engaged in her daily routine of house â– cleaning and while putting out her beds to air over the railing she dropped a pil low and in her attempt to regain it fell through the trap door iu the promenade deck breaking her neck one mr jeffcoat in the lower part of this county was accidently shot iu the ankle a few weeks ago and dr helde ! brand amputated the foot mr jeffcoat's gun fell from his shoulder and striking the round discharged ihe whole load in his ankle â€” summit courier peter cooper he passes through charlotte en route to limestone springs yesterday the 1.15 p ni train from the north came in with a beautiful palace car attached one of the most complete and elegant owned by the pullman company in which was hon peter cooper of xew york who was en route to limestone springs to inspect the property he has purchased there and which he proposes to eonvert into a school to be operated somewhat on the plan of the famous coop er institute in xew york city he was accompanied by mrs abram s hewitt mrs edward cooper and daughter miss edith cooper miss adelia cooper aud professor and mrs henry c raymond they were met at the air line j action by col g j foreacre general manager of the air line railroad with a special engine and after a stop of about twenty minutes were taken on to gaffney's at which point they leave the road lime stone springs being only about a mile and a quarter from that place the palace car in which the party came from xew york is supplied with every convenience for cooking sleeping sec in fact is an elegant dwelling on wheels and the party will doubtless occupy this dm ing their stay at gaffney's probably going out to limestone springs every day and returning at night mr cooper is quite a stout and healthy man for his age he was 87 years old on the 12th of last february he didn't talk much of his plans in reference to the school at limestone springs but was dis posed to discuss farming he said he was going to have an experiment in farming tried on his new place about thirty years ago continued he a seedy looking man came into my office aud offered to sell me a great secret 30 lie was so persistent and his condition was so piti ful that i finally com hided to buy it i paid the money and he told me the se cret mr cooper then proceeded to relate that it was a process of treating seed corn which would double ils productive pow er the corn should be covered with glue and rolled successively in lime guano c and planted with the accumulation thus gathered around it i gave the recipe continued he to a man in xew york state and he reported that the yield of the corn so treated was double that of corn planted in the usual way 1 have a barrel of glue with me and intend to try the experiment â€” charlotte observer farming out prisoners judge mckoy on this circuit has liber ally availed himself of the powers con ferred by the law of 1574-"5 amendatory to section 17 of chapter 8 of battle's revisal in regard to hiring out persons convicted of criminal offences by any of the courts of the state the law as ori ginally in force applied only to con victs but by an amendment offered by mr parish senator from orange at the session of 1-74 and passed into a law the powers of the court were so enlarged as to embrace not only all persons con victed of any criminal offence but all de fendants who may be made liable for the costs of a prosecution ; and the board of county commissioners are charged with the duty of making contracts for the safe keeping of such criminals and securing to the counly the costs of such criminals or defendants the operation of the present law is three fold : it provides appropriate pun ishment for parties guilty of the minor grades of crime it secures the county against the costs of such suits and the maintenance of idle crime in jail ; and ii is made a source of revenue to county by which the aggregate of taxation is dimin ish ed in cany ing out the purposes of the law the commissioners should see t it that all these purposes are conserved : and that is effected by rigid scrutiny into the hands with whom they enter iuto contracts the narantces for the security of the priso ners and the payment of the amount for which they are hired must be of the most ample kind there must be no child's play about it crime will lose all terrors if criminals are to be put out to a mere nominal servitude : and if the hirer be an irresponsible party the county loses not only its costs but its expected revenue also we merely make the suggestion be cause the practice is a new on : but as it is likely hereafter to be largely followed and if faithfully conducted calculated to relieve the county of one of its h aviest burdens by the decrease of pi ison charges we wi>li to see the system judiciously be gau.â€”hillsboro recorder richard adams was shot in the leg on tuesday or wednesday of last week by sam saybw or w t brooker ampu tated the leg on thursday adams al though a preacher was iti the act of steal ing corn from the crib of savior who was watching and had a shot gun trained on the spot and when he heard tiie thief pulled triggeraud down tumbled adams both parties are colored and reside in sandy run township â€” summit courier so many claimed homer as a resident and a citizen that the hawkeye inclines to the opinion that he was a methodist preacher state convention of the y ung mlns christian association office ok the state ex cost ) of yockg mkn's lii'i a^so \ charlotte n c may !>. 1378 at the first annual convention of the iouug men's christian association oi the state of xo,th carolina held in the city f charlotte iu april of last year the undersigned were appointed members of an executive committee to overlook asso ciation work throughout the state to fos ter and encourage existing associations and to effect organizations in new locali ties whenever practicable our efforts have met with some degree of success and while we do not claim all the growth and development of the work as the direct re sult of our labors we are nevertheless greatly cheered by the fact tiiat the num ber of associations iu the state has more than doubled during the past year we deem it therefore our duty and privilege to call the second annual convention of the v m c a of the state of north car olina and have appointed friday june 14th as the time and greensboro as the place for holding said convention the business session will continue during fri day and saturday and on sunday fol lowing devotional exercises will be held under the auspices of the convention onr brethren of the greensboro association have given us a cordial invitation to as semble there and assure us that we will receive a hearty welcome we are anx ious to have every association in the state represented by one or more members there are also many localities in which no formal organizations have been effect ed where the young men if properly stimulated and instructed would unite in association work we would gladly meet in convention representative nun from all such communities feeling assured that many of them would be enabled on their retain heme to organize an association the committee request that the names of all delegates who expect to attend the convention be promptly forwarded to t m pitt man secretary charlotte x ('.. i order that arrangements may be made for their entertainment application has been made to tiie various railroad officials in the state for a reduction of fare to dele gates attending the convention and we presume the usual courtesies will lie ex tended a programme of the order of exercises to b observed during the con vention will be issued iu the form of a circular and parties desiring information as to the railroad rates or on any other subject will please address the secretary at charlotte x c i 11 foust chairman t m pittmax secretary platft rm of the pennsylvania nationals philadelphia may 9 â€” the national convention has nominated a full state ticket the platform generally enunci ates the principles adopted in the nation al convention in toledo in february last they declare that the government should furnish aid to families desirous of settling upon public lands they favor rigid economy in the administration of public affairs demand the eight hour system of labor the abolition of the prison contract system of labor a graduated system of in come tax eqnal civil and political rights for women and paper money or green backs based not alone on the two metals silver and gold â€” but upon the entire wealth and the integrity of the nation should be assured in sufficient quantities to revive our prostrate industries later â€” the national convention was somewhat turbulent to-day a resolution tha the convention con demn any lawlessness or violence was adopted also tiie platform read this morning with a few amendments which briefly summarized that the pan advocates a high protective tariff and a moderate re form in the hours of labor to be regula ted by wise 1 gislative opposition to dis criminating monopolies in tiie carrying of trade and the substitution of the nation's money for that of bank notes it demands the unconstitutional rein 1 of the resump tion act the recognition by congress ot efforts at internal improvements and the encouragement of ship building aud ocean ic transportation it disavows the coun tenance of lawlessness and vioh nee and advocates the maintenance of the princi ples of the party by the judicious use of the ballot i it changes thaianic of the party from that of the national labor party to national greenback laboi party cut worms are destroy ing toe growing crops in the sandy rum section at a fearful rate one gentleman has a cotton field of 5 acres and it i asserted that all that is left of a good stand of cotton could be lndd in a single hand one pint of worms was gathered from three fee of a cotton row and it is thought that an average *! a peck of worm could be gathered from seventv yards of every row â€” summit courier one fhous nd seven hundred aud seven ty-five dollars is what it recently cost ap panoose county to find out that a man was insane ne huudred aud thirteen witnesses were examined i i to prevent the collection of old debts under the recent homestead decis ion of the v s supreme court some newspaper correspondents propose the following : let eb vance as soon after the elec tion in angust as possible call together the legislature in special session : it r that legislature be elected with especial ref erence to the measure which 1 now pro pose for the relief of the homesteads ami when elected let it instanter impose a tax ot ninety-nine per cent upon all execu tions issued or subsequently to lie issued upon judgments obtained previously to the ratification of the constitution of 1868 and upon all compromises thereunder provided either is pressed to cwllection or is not cancelled in ten days if this in feasible there can be no doubt that the legislature may rescind all amercements upon sheriffs lor declining to act upon such executions and such abolition of amercements would go far to supply the needed remedy would all that be constitutional and might it not be productive of further trouble in the future postponements of that sort are dangerous while relieving the poor debtor let the poor creditor also be remembered charlotte democrat the appointment of packard the bogus governor of lonisiana in tiie bayonet days as consul to liverpool is a genuine surprise to the country this is a tri umph of unadulterated rascality pack ard is correctly described by the phila delphia times as the champion carpet bagg r and head centre of the returning board system of elections every man we believe who was concerned directh or remotely in the lonisiana and florida steal has been rewarded by the great civil service reformer of the white house the times as might be supposed does not al low hayes thus to insult decency with out administering a few stripes we give a paragraph : in the xew orleans custom house his light would have been hidden andei a bushel in the central american states he would have wasted his sweetness on the desert air but at liverpool mr packard is a city set upon a hill that al may behold its beauties there is nothing mean about this country what is ours we give to the world it would be well to publish the proposed consul's biogra phy in tiie london and liverpool journals in older that the british public may real ize to the fullest extent the compliment paid in this appointment to the proud natiou whose chief boast is i;s integrity in commerce and diplomacy there is a great stir in the papers just now over the american commune crave fiats are felt that evil disposed persons will bring great trouble upon our country and that the dangerous wild agragrian principles of the paris commune may become a terrible factor in oar free america we cannot to-day enb r upon this topic at large for want of space we will say however that we do not anticipate as much mischief as others do we believe that it is impossible now for the spirit of plnuder and destruction to go far before coming to grief Â» ur people are not yet corrupt enough for universal chaos and its attending curses there may bo sei ions trouble for a while in densely pop ulated centres but the good sense and good principles of the people will back up the law ami the carnival of thievery and crime will be quashed aud that speed ily wil star a gentlemau sits on a tall stool at a desk in collector tut ton's office a com mittee approaches him witii a subscrip tion paper the president has contrib uted so has the secretary of the treas ury so has senator cameron so has this and the other chief of bureau inspector and so on down i h â€¢ clerk may or may not put hi name down with a good round sum opposite he is a free agent and if he choose to set himself up as a contrast t t e di sons v hose names appear on the roll of honor that i his lookout bui no compulsion aol for worlds this i p > ! < l "' ' ivil service reform it any president ever went farther in the advÂ«Â»cacy of the sys tem of rnnuiug political parties by levy ing on officeholders it is not a matter of record the truth is hat he h s basely surrendered his position so often declar ed aud forfeited the las vestige of the confidence that he enjoyed in the lirst bright days uf hi - administration phifa dclphia times lud for sweet love's sake a case of strong devotion was develop ed in denverashort time ago a young man of eight summers bad jusi had a front tooth pulled he did uol wince win ! _. ii one eud ch the ':::, ... i h 1 was edven the vio lent jerk that docidi 1 the matter but brightened upas if greatly relieved and confronted his mother wh > was perform ing the duties o fist with : now mamma please pull thi other as the other was not 1 lady refns d and th â€¢ b iy went i miu : ly discons date so ird 1 ; - ed and the ing a p cu liar vacancy alnuis his mouth begau aq inspection a few well din etc 1 -; :â€¢ brough to lighl th i bad per ' formed the job himself how di v sheas i just pa it a it canie wli it on i lrth possess : in to no if :"' â€¢â€¢". .... n lie replied meek i - er'ii out and i wanted both ol mine out maud and the young man are sweet hearts dcurci .